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Page Excerpt: Out of the wrapper this bat was hotno break in period. A 12 year old on the travel team hit one about 275 the first time he used the bat.
Page Excerpt: I was dead even when picking between new bats this year and found that I actually hit the ball more solid with the Wicked then with the new Stealth. The whiplash action to be is almost even Wicked hit them deep and solid -great bat -- Buckshot, Tuesday, April 12, 2005.
Page Excerpt: 1884 brought the beginning of the most famous name in baseball bats today - The Louisville Slugger. It all started at a baseball game in Louisville, a 17 year old John Hillerich watched Louisville player Pete Browning become frustrated after breaking his favorite bat.
Page Excerpt: They went together to the woodworking shop, selected a piece of white ash and Browning supervised as John Hillerich made his new bat. The next day, Browning went three for three with the new bat, word spread about the new bats, and the Hillerich family was in the baseball bat business.
In the 1850's baseball was an extremely young sport and batters made their own bats and experimented with bats of all varieties . They quickly learned that bats with rounded barrels seemed to work the best. Because bats of all shapes and sizes were being used, a rule was made in 1859 that bats could be no larger than 2.